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cloth (for Japanese clothes); kimono fabrics; textile; silk fabrics

4

five-family unit; five-man group; quintet

23

Oshigome

4

wounded person; injured person

1

autopsy; inquest; investigation of death

2

soot

2

first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month; traditional day for worship at "fox deity" shrines

1

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

1

pun; play on words

2

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

3

to assume the air of ...; to behave like ...; to put on airs; to be self-important

2

spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)

2

to swing; to wield (physically); to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to flourish; to prosper

3

hardening; fortifying; pledge; vow; defense; defence

1

wooden pole (often oak), 6 shaku long; shoulder pole

8

scarecrow; figurehead; dummy

2

scarecrow; figurehead; dummy

1

whole story; full picture; full particulars

6

gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step

1

frontage; width (of a building, plot of land, etc.); breadth (e.g. of one's knowledge); scope (e.g. of one's work); range

2

employee

1

large store

1

stone wall

2

to push in; to force into; to break in (e.g. into a house); to intrude

2

serious wound; serious injury

2

killing; murder

1

last day of the month

2

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

13

curtain; hanging; bunting

1

one month

1

partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing

1

book; register

1

400; four hundred

2

to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)

1

box for holding papers or stationery

1

small cabinet; chest of drawers; bureau

1

existence; possession; having; limited company

1

700; seven hundred

2

goods; article; thing

1

(not) one

5

to take away; to carry away

1

to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit

3

knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; arrest; rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

3

(mouth) gag

2

to reach; to get to; to arrive at

3

useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated

4

assassin's dagger

1

to use; to make use of; to utilize

1

modus operandi; criminal technique; trick

1

proof; evidence; trace

1